In 2004 NGO ”Transparent World” under the aegis of the UNESCO Moscow Office for Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Republic of Moldova and Russian Federation with the support of the Natural Heritage Protection Fund, East-Siberian Research Institute of Geology, Geophysics, and Mineral Resources and ASTER Protected Area Archive started the “World Heritage from Space” project.

In 2005 the “World Heritage in Russia ” Atlas has been prepared. Publication of the Atlas was supported by the Moscow Department of Education.

The Atlas presents ten sites, including two trans-border ones:

1. Cultural and Historical Ensemble of the Solovetsky Islands (1992)
2. Virgin Komi Forests (1995)
3. Lake Baikal (1996)
4. Volcanoes of Kamchatka (1996)
5. Golden Mountains of Altai (1998)
6. Western Caucasus (1999)
7. Curonian Spit ( Russian Federation / Lithuania ) (2000)
8. Central Sikhote-Alin (2001)
9. Uvs Nuur Basin ( Russian Federation / Mongolia ) (2003)
10. Natural System of Wrangel Island Reserve (2004).

The figure in brackets indicates the year when the site was added to the World Heritage List.

The Atlas consists of ten sheets of the A3 format. One side of each sheet presents a mid- or high-resolution image. Mainly this is the MODIS (Terra) and ETM+ (Landsat) data. In addition on each sheet there is an insert with the most interesting fragment of this World Heritage site but of higher spatial resolution. Mainly this is the data from the ETM+ (Landsat) and PAN&LISS (IRS) instruments.

Overleaf there is the black-and-white version of the same image with the names of the principal objects apparently seen in this image. In addition a brief annotation is given for each site together with the characteristics of the main data used.